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Dr. Benjamin Winkel
Dipl.-Physiker (Master of physics)
Support Scientist (Spectroscopy) at the
100-m telescope Effelsberg

Project Euler Level 8

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Benjamin Winkel
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Radioobservatorium Effelsberg
Max-Planck-Strasse 28
D-53902 Bad Münstereifel
Germany
+49 02257 301-167 (Effelsberg)
+49 0228 73-3393 (Bonn)
bwinkel at mpifr.de

* 27.01. 1978, Forst (Lausitz)
Alumni of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Radio and Infrared Astronomy of Bonn/Cologne

Publications

  1. A. Marasco, F. Fraternali, and G. Heald et al., HALOGAS: the properties of extraplanar HI in disc galaxies, A&A, 631, 50, 2019
  2. A. Schröer, L. Flöer, and B. Winkel et al., EZOA - a catalogue of EBHIS H I-detected galaxies in the northern Zone of Avoidance, MNRAS, 489, 2907, 2019
  3. S.-N. X. Medina, J. S. Urquhart, S. A. Dzib et al., GLOSTAR: Radio Source Catalog I. 28° < l < 36° and |b| < 1°, A&A, 627, 175, 2019
  4. V. Thiel, A. Belloche, K. M. Menten et al., Small-scale physical and chemical structure of diffuse and translucent molecular clouds along the line of sight to Sgr B2, A&A, 623, 68, 2019
  5. B. Winkel and A. Jessner, Compatibility Between Wind Turbines and the Radio Astronomy Service, JAI, 840002W, 2019
  6. P. Richter, B. Winkel, B. Wakker et al., Circumgalactic Gas at Its Extreme: Tidal Gas Streams around the Whale Galaxy NGC 4631 Explored with HST/COS, ApJ, 868, 112, 2018
  7. N. M. Pingel, D. J. Pisano, G. Heald et al., A GBT Survey of the HALOGAS Galaxies and Their Environments. I. Revealing the Full Extent of H I around NGC 891, NGC 925, NGC 4414, and NGC 4565, ApJ, 865, 36, 2018
  8. B. Winkel and A. Jessner, Spectrum management and compatibility studies with Python, Advances in Radio Science, 16, 177, 2018
  9. B. Winkel, H. Wiesemeyer, K. M. Menten et al., Hydrogen in diffuse molecular clouds in the Milky Way, A&Amp;A, 600, A2, 2017
  10. T. Röhser, J. Kerp, D. Lenz et al., An all-sky census of Galactic high-latitude molecular intermediate-velocity clouds, A&Amp;A, 596, A94, 2016
  11. HI4PI Collaboration et al. (corresponding authors: B. Winkel and P. Kalberla), HI4PI: A full-sky HI survey based on EBHIS and GASS, A&Amp;A 594, A116, 2016, press release
  12. T. Röhser, J. Kerp, N. Ben Bekhti et al., High-resolution HI and CO observations of high-latitude intermediate-velocity clouds, A&Amp;A, 592, A142, 2016
  13. B. Winkel, D. Lenz, and L. Flöer, Cygrid: A fast Cython-powered convolution-based gridding module for Python, A&Amp;A 591, 12W, 2016
  14. P. Kalberla, et al., Cold Milky Way HI Gas in Filaments, ApJ 821, 117, 2016
  15. J. Kerp, et al., A survey of HI gas toward the Andromeda Galaxy, A&Amp;A 589, 120K, 2016
  16. H. Wiesemeyer, et al., Far-infrared study of tracers of oxygen chemistry in diffuse clouds, A&Amp;A 585, A76, 2016
  17. B. Winkel, J. Kerp, L. Flöer, et al., The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Milky Way gas. First data release, A&Amp;A 585, A41, 2016, press release
  18. P. Serra, et al., SOFIA: a flexible source finder for 3D spectral line data, MNRAS 448, 1922, 2015
  19. D. Lenz, et al., Far-infrared excess emission as a tracer of disk-halo interaction, A&Amp;A 573, 83, 2015
  20. N. Indriolo, et al., Herschel Survey of Galactic OH+, H2O+, and H3O+: Probing the Molecular Hydrogen Fraction and Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate, ApJ 800, 40, 2014
  21. Planck collaboration, Planck 2013 results. XXX. Cosmic infrared background measurements and implications for star formation, A&Amp;A 571, 30, 2014
  22. Planck collaboration, Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results, A&Amp;A 571, 1, 2014
  23. L. Flöer, B. Winkel, and J. Kerp, Source finding, parametrization and classification for the extragalactic Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, A&Amp;A 569, 101, 2014
  24. P. Schilke et al., Ubiquitous argonium (ArH+) in the diffuse interstellar medium - a molecular tracer of almost purely atomic gas, A&Amp;A, 566, 29, 2014
  25. Planck collaboration, Planck intermediate results. XVII. Emission of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium from the far-infrared to microwave frequencies, A&Amp;A, 566, 23, 2014

  26. T. Röhser, J. Kerp, B. Winkel et al., A dynamical transition from atomic to molecular intermediate-velocity clouds, A&Amp;A, 564, 71, 2014

  27. P. Schmidt et al., Structure and Kinematics of the Nearby Dwarf Galaxy UGCA 105, A&Amp;A, 561, 28, 2014
  28. S. A. Levshakov et al., Limits on the spatial variations of the electron-to-proton mass ratio in the Galactic plane, A&Amp;A, 559, 91, 2013
  29. A. K. Hernandez et al., A Low Metallicity Molecular Cloud In The Lower Galactic Halo, ApJ, 777, 19, 2013
  30. M. E. Filho, B. Winkel, J. Sanchez Almeida et al., Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies: The HI Content, A&Amp;A, 558, 18, 2013
  31. J. M. Dickey et al., GASKAP - The Galactic ASKAP Survey, PASA, 30, 3D, 2013
  32. B. Winkel, L. Flöer, A. Kraus, Efficient least-squares basket-weaving, A&Amp;A, 547, A119, 2012
  33. N. Ben Bekhti, B. Winkel, P. Richter et al., An absorption-selected survey of neutral gas in the Milky Way halo, A&Amp;A, 542, A110, 2012
  34. B. Winkel, A. Kraus, U. Bach, Unbiased flux calibration methods for spectral-line radio observations, A&Amp;A, 540, A140, 2012
  35. L. Flöer and B. Winkel, 2D-1D Wavelet Reconstruction As A Tool For Source Finding In Spectroscopic Imaging Surveys, PASA, 29, 244, 2012
  36. B. Winkel, N. Ben Bekhti, V. Darmstädter et al., The high-velocity cloud complex Galactic center negative as seen by EBHIS and GASS. I. Cloud catalog and global properties , A&Amp;A (highlight), 533, 105, 2011
  37. J. Kerp, B. Winkel, N. Ben Bekhti et al., The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS), AN, 332, 637, 2011
  38. N. Ben Bekhti, B. Winkel, P. Richter et al., On the origin of gaseous galaxy halos - Low-column density gas in the Milky Way halo, Conference proceedings of General Assembly of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Bonn, 2010
  39. B. Winkel, J. Kerp, P. Kalberla et al., The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Milky Way data, Conference proceedings of "The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey", Naramata, June 2010
  40. N. Ben Bekhti, P. Richter, B. Winkel et al., Absorption and emission line studies of gas in the Milky Way halo, Conference proceedings of "The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey", Naramata, June 2010
  41. L. Flöer, B. Winkel, J. Kerp, RFI mitigation for the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) , Conference proceedings of "RFI2010 - RFI Mitigation Workshop", Groningen, March 2010
  42. P. Kalberla, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, D. J. Pisano et al., GASS: The Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey. II. Stray-Radiation Correction and Second Data Release, A&Amp;A, 521, A17, 2010
  43. B. Winkel, P. Kalberla, J. Kerp et al., The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Data reduction, ApJS, 188, 488W, 2010
  44. N. Ben Bekhti, P. Richter, B. Winkel et al., High-resolution 21-cm observations of low-column density small-scale structures in the Milky Way halo, A&Amp;A, 503, 483B, 2009
  45. B. Winkel, J. Kerp, P. Kalberla, Data reduction strategy of the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS), Conference proceedings of "Panoramic Radio Astronomy", Groningen, June 2009
  46. B. Winkel, The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, Ph.D. thesis (2009)
  47. B. Winkel, J. Kerp, P. Kalberla, R. Keller, The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS), Conference proceedings of "The Evolution of Galaxies through the neutral hydrogen window", Puerto Rico, Feb 2008
  48. B. Winkel, J. Kerp, P. Kalberla, R. Keller, The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS), Conference proceedings of "Galaxies in the Local Volume", Sydney, July 2007
  49. B. Winkel, J. Kerp, The Robustness of Least-Squares Frequency Switching (LSFS), ApJS 173 (2007), 166-176
  50. B. Winkel, J. Kerp, S. Stanko, RFI detection by automated feature extraction and statistical analysis, Astron. Nachr. 328 (2007) 68-79
  51. B. Winkel, Detektion und Analyse von Interferenzen im Radiofrequenzbereich (German), Diplomarbeit (2005)
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Talks

  1. OneWeb, StarLink and 5G - A new dark age for radio astronomy?, ADASS XXIX, Groningen, Oct 9, 2019
  2. The HI4PI survey: data processing challenges, WHISPERS 2019: 10th workshop on hyperspectral image and signal processing, Amsterdam, Sep 26, 2019
  3. The new mobile communications standard 5G from a radio astronomer's perspective, MPIfR Lunch Colloquium, Bonn, Feb 20, 2019
  4. pycraf: Spectrum compatibility studies for the Radioastronomy Service, 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting, Commission EACFJ: Spectrum management and utilization, Gran Canaria, May 30, 2018
  5. The HI4PI Survey, 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting, Commission J: Detecting Hydrogen Near and Far, Gran Canaria, May 29, 2018
  6. Broadband calibration for single-dish telecopes, Effelsberg science workshop, Bonn, Feb 21, 2018
  7. Compatibility between radioastronomical observations and wind turbines, Electromagnetic waves and wind turbines, Braunschweig (PTB), Dec 7, 2017
  8. Spektrum Management - Frequenzen sind ein knappes Gut, Öffentlicher Vortrag, Bad Münstereifel, Nov 22, 2017
  9. Spectrum management and compatibility studies with Python, Kleinheubacher Tagung KH2017 (U.R.S.I. Germany), Miltenberg, Sep 26, 2017
  10. The HI4PI Survey, ASTRON Colloquium, Dwingeloo, May 11, 2017 (invited)
  11. Astronomical data gridding: cygrid, Python in Astronomy (pyastro) 2017, Leiden, May 10, 2017 (lightning talk)
  12. New ITU-R path propagation models, 60th CRAF Meeting, Bonn/Effelsberg, May 4, 2017
  13. The Effelsberg 100-m telescope - recent results and current developments, AG Annual Meeting, Splinter Workshop: Advances in Radio Astronomy, Kiel, Sept 17, 2015 (invited)
  14. Unbiased flux calibration for single-sish telescopes: dealing with frequency-dependence, URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference, Commission J: New telescopes, techniques, and observations, Gran Canaria, May 19, 2015
  15. Unbiased flux calibration for single-dish telescopes: using advanced observing techniques, URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference, Commission J: New telescopes, techniques, and observations, Gran Canaria, May 19, 2015
  16. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Enabling great new science, URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Commission J: Probing the Hydrogen Universe, Beijing, Aug 20, 2014
  17. Unbiased flux calibration for single-dish radio telescopes, RadioNet ERATec Workshop: Calibration of Multi-Beam Receivers, Bologna, Oct 29, 2013 (invited)
  18. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Toward the first data release, AG Annual Meeting, Splinter Workshop: Gaseous Galactic Haloes in the Context of Galaxy Evolution, Tübingen, Sept 26, 2013 (invited)
  19. Supplementing HALOGAS with single-dish observations, HALOGAS workshop 2013, Ghent, Jun 24, 2013
  20. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: First data release, Modern Radio Universe 2013, Bonn, Apr 26, 2013
  21. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, Kleinheubacher Tagung 2012, U.R.S.I. Deutschland, Miltenberg, Sep 26, 2012
  22. The new Milky Way HI Surveys, AG Annual Meeting, Splinter Workshop: Surveys and Survey Instruments, Heidelberg, Sept 22, 2011
  23. HVC Complex GCN. An example for ongoing warm accretion?, Gas in Galaxies: from Cosmic Web to Molecular Clouds, Kloster Seeon, June 17, 2011
  24. Data analysis (Talk + Hands-on session), European Single Dish School in the Era of Arrays (ESSEA), Bonn, Sept 30, 2010
  25. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: First results, AG Annual Meeting, Splinter Workshop: LOFAR/SKA, Bonn, Sept 15, 2010
  26. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Milky Way data, The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, Naramata, June 8, 2010
  27. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: First results, Lunchcolloquium, Dwingeloo, Nov 25, 2009
  28. Data reduction scheme for the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, Panoramic Radio Astronomy, Groningen, Jun 4, 2009
  29. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, Ph.D. Colloquium, Bonn, Feb 4, 2009
  30. RFI detection by automated feature extraction and statistical analysis, RadioNet - 7th Engineering Forum Workshop, Bonn, Jun 23, 2008
  31. Bias effects in HI surveys, IMPRS seminar, Bonn, Nov 5, 2007
  32. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, 1st AIfA retreat, Bad Honnef, Oct 27, 2007
  33. Scientific Aims of the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, YERAC07, Bordeaux, Sep 4, 2007
  34. Single Dish Radio Telescopes, IMPRS Retreat, Diemelsee, Aug 21, 2007
  35. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, "Galaxy Lunch" Colloquium, ATNF/CSIRO, Sydney, Jul 24, 2007
  36. The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey, "Feast and Facts" Colloquium, Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Jul 20, 2007
  37. The Interstellar Matter (ISM) – Neutral Gas and Overview, IMPRS lecture series, Bonn, May 7, 2007
  38. HI survey with the new Multi Beam Receiver at the 100-m-telescope, IMPRS seminar, Bonn, Nov 13, 2006
  39. The Gamma test, IMPRS Retreat, Klagenfurt, Aug 29, 2006
  40. RFI mitigation using automated feature detection and statistical analysis, IMPRS application for scholarship, Bonn, Feb 14, 2006
  41. Detektion und Analyse von Interferenzen im Radiofrequenzbereich (RFI), Diploma colloquium, Bonn, Aug 25, 2005
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Conferences, Workshops, and Schools

  1. ADASS XXIX: The Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems, Groningen, Oct 6-10, 2019
  2. WHISPERS 2019: 10th workshop on hyperspectral image and signal processing, Amsterdam, Sep 24-26, 2019
  3. 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting (URSI AT-RASC), Gran Canaria, May 28-Jun 1, 2018
  4. The Big Impact of a Big Dish: Science with the Effelsberg 100-m Telescope, Effelsberg science workshop, Bonn, Feb 20-21, 2018
  5. Electromagnetic waves and wind turbines workshop, Braunschweig (PTB), Dec 6-7, 2017
  6. Kleinheubacher Tagung, U.R.S.I. Deutschland, Miltenberg, Sep 25-27, 2017
  7. Python in Astronomy (pyastro) 2017, Leiden, May 8-13, 2017
  8. 60th CRAF Meeting, Bonn/Effelsberg, May 3-5, 2017
  9. 59th CRAF Meeting, Helsinki, May 31-June 1, 2016
  10. 58th CRAF Meeting, Amsterdam, Oct 19, 2016
  11. AG Annual Meeting, Kiel, Sep 14-18, 2015
  12. 1st URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-RASC), Gran Canaria, May 18-22, 2015
  13. 57th CRAF Meeting, Birr, May 12-13, 2015
  14. 31st URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), Beijing, Aug 16-23, 2014
  15. Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array, Giardini Naxos (Sicily), Jun 9-13, 2014
  16. RadioNet ERATec Workshop: Calibration of Multi-Beam Receivers, Bologna, Oct 29-30, 2013
  17. AG Annual Meeting, Tübingen, Sep 24-27, 2013
  18. Lecture on Information Field Theory and NIFTY tutorial, Garching, Jul 10/11, 2013
  19. HALOGAS workshop 2013, Ghent, Jun 24-28, 2013
  20. Modern Radio Universe 2013, Bonn, Apr 22-26, 2013
  21. RadioNet ERATec Workshop: Radio Interference in Large Bandwidth Observations, Bonn, Apr 8-12, 2013
  22. Kleinheubacher Tagung, U.R.S.I. Deutschland, Miltenberg, Sep 24-26, 2012
  23. AG Annual Meeting, Heidelberg, Sep 19-23, 2011
  24. Gas in Galaxies: from Cosmic Web to Molecular Clouds, Kloster Seeon, Jun 14-18, 2011
  25. European Single Dish School in the Era of Arrays, Summer School, Bonn, Sep 27-Oct 1, 2010
  26. AG Annual Meeting, Bonn, Sep 13-17, 2010
  27. The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, Naramata, Jun 6-10, 2010
  28. RFI2010 - RFI Mitigation Workshop, Groningen, Mar 29-31, 2010
  29. CASA tutorial 2009, Bonn, Oct 5-7, 2009
  30. European Radio Interferometry School 2009, Summer School, Oxford, Sep 7-11, 2009
  31. Panoramic Radio Astronomy, Wide-field 1-2 GHz research on galaxy evolution, Groningen, Jun 2-5, 2009
  32. The Role of Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxy Evolution: Outflow vs. Infall?, Espinho (Portugal), Aug 18-22, 2008
  33. RadioNet - 7th Engineering Forum Workshop: Digital Backend Implementation: Software vs. Hardware, Bonn, Jun 23, 2008
  34. Astronomy in the next decade: synergies with the square kilometre array, MCCT SKADS Workshop Bonn, Apr 14-18, 2008
  35. First MCCT-SKADS Training School, Bologna, Sep 23-29, 2007
  36. Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC) 2007, Bordeaux, Sep 3-7, 2007
  37. IMPRS Retreat 2007, Diemelsee, Aug 21-23, 2007
  38. Galaxies in the Local Volume, Sydney, Jul 8-13, 2007
  39. Milky Way Halo - Stars and Gas, Bonn, May 29-Jun 2, 2007
  40. Physics of the Interstellar Medium, IMPRS Summer School, Heidelberg, Sep 25-29, 2006
  41. IMPRS Retreat 2006, Klagenfurt, Aug 28-31, 2006
  42. Evolution of galaxies and their large-scale environment, Summer School, Bad Honnef, July, 2006
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Curriculum

Since 01.2011

Support scientist at the 100-m telescope Effelsberg, MPIfR

02.2009 - 12.2010

Postdoc at the AIfA, University of Bonn

Working on the Effelsberg-Bonn HI survey

10.2005 - 02.2009

Ph.D. student (Astronomy), University of Bonn & Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy

Thesis title: The Effelsberg-Bonn HI survey (EBHIS)
(Development of data reduction software, simulations, focus on: RFI mitigation; Measurements of the LeoT and NGC2403 galaxy.)
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D. in Astronomy), magna cum laude

10.1998 - 09.2005

Studies of physics, University of Bonn

Emphasis on: astronomy
Thesis: Detektion und Analyse von Interferenzen im Radiofrequenzbereich (RFI)
(Detection and Analysis of Radio Frequency Interference)
Diplom-Physiker (Diploma in physics), 1.0

08.1997 - 08.1998

Zivildienst (Civilian Service), Asylum "Pro Seniore" Cottbus

Care of (mentally) disabled people

1991 - 1997

Ludwig Leichhardt Gymnasium, Cottbus (Lausitz)

Abitur (A levels), 1.3